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...withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before. Later Paul established an international commission of Roman Catholic theologians to discuss differences of creed with Anglican colleagues, and approved a similar commission with Lutherans in the U.S. Both groups achieved a remarkable consensus on such issues as the nature of the ministry and the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist-key doctrines that divided Christianity in Reformation days. The two Protestant groups went so far as to concede a rationale for some kind of limited papacy...
There is normally a complex of reasons for the failure of a major piece of legislation to emerge from Congress, and sometimes it is simply that there is no clear national consensus behind it. But in these five instances, and others like them, the force that proved decisive in blocking passage this year arose out of a dramatic new development in Washington: the startling increase in the influence of special-interest lobbyists. Partly because of this influence, President Carter has encountered serious difficulty in getting legislation through Congress; partly because of this influence, Congress itself is becoming increasingly balky...
Will the Kremlin leaders succeed in terrorizing dissidents into silence with show trials like Shcharansky's? The consensus among both dissidents and Sovietologists abroad appears to be that they will live to fight another day. "The publicity given the trials is very encouraging," said Computer Scientist Valentin Turchin, 47, who was a prominent human rights activist before he emigrated to New York City last year. Although the Soviet press has hardly mentioned the protests in Western Europe and the U.S., news of them was beamed to millions in the Soviet Union by Radio Liberty and other Western short-wave stations...
...London, meanwhile, will be to play a discreet yet forceful role in bridging gaps where a consensus seems possible. There is no intention, for the moment, of submitting a U.S. "plan," although some State Department officials privately concede that floating a last-ditch American sketch might prove more palatable than reverting to yet another call for a Geneva parley. Washington also wants to persuade both sides to cool their public rhetoric and explore the possibilities of working through more private channels. "Israel and Egypt have, in a sense, always negotiated in public, and when seen in that light, the differences...
...command. He has only one of seven votes on the board and one of twelve on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which makes the key operating decisions on money supply and interest rates. The practice is to have discussion go around and around the table until a consensus emerges, and take a vote only after its outcome has become a foregone conclusion. A forceful chairman can guide and shape the debate, but it had been thought that Miller's lack of training in banking might cause him to defer to his strong-minded colleagues...